Klara and the Sun
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
6 people recommended it in 5 threads, 2021–2024.
What people on Hacker News said
It's about one possible future of our relationship with AI. It paints multiple perspectives on this relationship while being implicitly judgmental. I'm being vague because the story reveals itself slowly, and the blossoming of information is itself a work of art -- this unfolding is part of Ishiguro's mastery.
It very credibly tells an agonizingly familiar human story, from the perspective of a inescapably inhuman android protagonist - by seeing the world through her eyes, you also learn who she is, and what her experience of consciousness is - you in fact are offered a precious insight into the nature of artificial consciousness that no one else in the book is quite properly aware of.
The firs impression is it seems to be a sci-fi novel, but it is actually much more about humans than robots or future.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? 2021 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year? 2024 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Best books read in 2022? 2022 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Which are the most interesting books you have read in 2022? 2022 · 1 recommendation
- Books I loved reading this year 2021 · 1 recommendation